Hiking in the Pyrenees Articles

Punta Del Pacino

I was hiking up Punta del Pacino at the weekend which is one of my favourite peaks in the valley – not high at 1965 metres but with a fantastic position right in the centre of the valley and you get superb views in all directions from the summit. The lower sunny...

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Hike Pyrenees online brochure

The Hike Pyrenees brochure is now available to view online. We’ve used the issuu website to publish the online version and it’s a great magazine/brochure reading tool. You can also download it as a pdf. If you prefer of course you can always order a...

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Hiking from Sallent de Gállego

Our friends Dave and Elena are over at the moment with their daughter Evangeline. We all went hiking from Sallent up to the embalse at La Sarra which is a lovely spot. Isabel and Evangeline went in the backpacks and loved it. The spring flowers are really getting...

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Snowshoeing in the Ordesa Valley

Ordesa has had lots of snow this winter and you can snowshoe straight from the Pardera car park where there’s several feet of snow. The valley looks beautiful in the snow and I’ve been over there a couple of times in the past few weeks – one time...

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Hiking to an iced up Ibon de Piedrafita

Ibon de Piedrafita is in a beautiful spot under the cliffs of the Sierra de Partacua and yesterday I headed up there with Berute – a friend from the village. In summer this is a really popular walk with guests on our walking holidays but I’d never seen it...

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Favourite photos of 2012

2012’s drawing to a close – it’s been a great year here in the Pyrenees and I thought it would be a good time to show some of our favourite photo’s from this summer – there’s lot’s of photos of our guests so see if you can...

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Thanks for a great walking season

The summer 2012 season is over and we’d like to thank all of our guests for making it another fantastic summer for Hike Pyrenees. We got up same great peaks, saw fantasic flowers and wildlife, ate plenty of tapas and had a fantastic time showing you all the...

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Peña Roya and Peña Blanca

I’ve wanted to do some of the peaks of the Sierra de Tendeñera and yesterday finally got up there. It’s a magnificent 12km long ridge with imposing cliffs on both the north and the south. We approached from Ibon de Asnos up the north slopes. It was pretty...

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First walking holidays of the season

The season is well underway here in the Pyrenees and we’ve had a couple of Lakes & Valleys guided walking holidays as well as lots of guests doing self guided walking holidays. We’ve been blessed with some fantastic early season weather with lots of...

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